State Of Technology: Storage -- The Key Takeaways

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Everything Channel's Institute for Partner Education & Development (IPED) surveyed solution providers around the country to get a closer look at the products, services and trends driving the storage market now and into 2009 and beyond.

Overall, VARs surveyed were bullish on sales and profit growth potential for the storage market over the next 12 months. From a 30,000 foot view of the market:

 Managed services are the sweet spot

 Services yield the greatest profits and also have the greatest planned rate of adoption among all storage technologies/services

 Business needs for storage, particularly in disaster recovery, are a key driver of growth

 Small business financing limitations do much to hamper growth

 Hardware still dominates storage sales but services are gaining

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XChange Solution Provider 2015 is finally upon us and the timing couldn't be better. The premier channel event is happening March 1-3 in Dallas, bringing together 225 solution provider decision makers from across North America. CRN is at the event to provide news, analysis and a firsthand take from partners.